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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 13, 2015
Powerdisc Development Corporation Ltd., Chilliwack, CA;
David E. Leger, Chilliwack, CA;
Matthew P. Paone, Burnaby, CA;
Greg J. Montie, Surrey, CA;
Sean MacKinnon, Vancouver, CA;
Raoul Kingma, Langley, CA;
Loop Energy Inc., Vancouver, CA;
Abstract
A fuel cell power module includes a cylindrical housing encasing a fuel cell stack and an air supply. The housing has a major interior surface. The fuel cell stack can be cylindrical or hexagonal, and comprises fuel cells having an anode and an anode flow field plate, a cathode and a cathode flow field plate, and a membrane electrolyte interposed between the anode and the cathode. The air supply is directed to the plurality of fuel cell cathode flow field plates via a plenum defined by a space between the fuel cell stack and the housing major interior surface. The hexagonal fuel cell stack can be formed by a plurality of fuel cell groups shaped such that when aligned the fuel cell groups together constitute the hexagonal fuel cell stack.